Parental mass change and food provisioning in Adélie penguins rearing chicks in colonies with contrasting sea-ice conditions

Polar Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 672-681

  Watanuki, Yutaka ^a   Kato, Akiko ^b   Sato, Katsufumi ^b   Niizuma, Yasuaki ^a,d   Bost, Charles A ^c   Le Maho, Yvon ^c   Naito, Yasuhiko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; REARING; SEA ICE; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; DUMONT D'URVILLE;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PYGOSCELIS; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0036937583     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-002-0399-2     Document Type: Article

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